1878 – Thomas Edison is granted a patent for his cylinder phonograph.
1906 – Will Keith Kellogg, after a falling out with his brother over development credit and wanting to add sugar to cereal, joins Charles D. Bolin in founding the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, not the multinational food manufacturer Kellogg’s.
1913 – First prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box.
1923 – Phillip Barry’s play “You & I” premieres in New York City.
1928 – II Winter Olympic Games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland.
1934 – United States contract air mail service cancelled, replaced by United States Army for six months.
1942 – President Franklin Roosevelt orders detention and internment of all west coast Japanese-Americans.
1945 – United States 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 Marines.
1953 – Georgia approves first literature censorship board in the United States.
1963 – USSR informs President John Kennedy it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba.
1968 – First statewide teachers’ strike begins in Florida. (Note: a two-day walk-out in Utah in 1963 is considered first by some.}
1973 – “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” single released by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando. It was the Billboard Song of the Year.
1977 – Space shuttle Enterprise makes first test flight atop a 747 jetliner.
1983 – Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million.
1989 – 31st Daytona 500: Darrell Waltrip wins when the Hendrick Racing team decides to use fuel strategy. He is the only car not to pit in the closing laps.
1997 – Federal Communications Commission makes available 311 for non-emergency calls and 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls.
2007 – Blogging website Tumblr is founded by David Karp in New York.
2014 – After winning the combined gold in Turin in 2006, American alpine skier Ted Ligety has to wait 8 years for his next Olympic success, gold in the giant slalom in Sochi.
2019 – Four-time Major League Baseball All-Star third baseman Manny Machado agrees to the biggest free-agent contract in American sports history, a 10 year deal worth $300 million with the San Diego Padres.
2024 – 66th Daytona 500: William Byron takes the lead on a restart with 4 laps to go and then wins after Ross Chastain and Austin Cindric crash to bring out a race-ending caution; Hendrick Motorsports record-tying 9th win
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